CVE-2005-0488

medium Microsoft
CVSS v3 Base Score
5.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score
10.2%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 7% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
P
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Published: June 14, 2005 (7639 days ago)
Last Modified: April 16, 2026
Vendor: Microsoft
Source: NVD

Description

Certain BSD-based Telnet clients, including those used on Solaris and SuSE Linux, allow remote malicious Telnet servers to read sensitive environment variables via the NEW-ENVIRON option with a SEND ENV_USERVAR command.

CWE

NVD-CWE-Other

Affected Products

microsoft telnet clientmit kerberos 5sun sunos

References

🔗 idefense.com 🔗 lists.apple.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 secunia.com 🔗 securitytracker.com